Project Manager

Project Manager - Paris - 12-Month Contract

Our client, a global (bio)pharmaceutical manufacturing organisation, is recruiting for a Project Manager to join them on their new expansion project. Based in a charming French location, this is on a contractual basis, and will involve significantly growing the site's capacity for the manufacture of Biologics.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Accountable for meeting key project deliverables for safety, financial management, schedule management, and scope management across these projects.
2. Accountable for ensuring projects are compliant with good engineering practices, company policies, regulations, and codes.
3. Liaise with Global Engineering/Global EHS/Global Procurement to ensure all are aligned and support project deliverables.
4. Concept and Business Case development in collaboration with project Sponsor and End user, working with the end user to understand and clarify end user requirements, develop scope, cost and budget estimates, and present to governance for approval.
5. Leading & supporting project teams through complex and significant projects.
6. Support and Mentor Junior/Intermediate PMs within the Projects Group.
7. Financial management - develop project budgets, obtain approvals for and adhere to project scope. Negotiate with contractors and suppliers to keep project within budget. Make cash flow projections. Make effective use of SAP and budgeting tools.
8. Manage project prioritisation and spend to meet budgetary targets.
9. Project Design - Design solutions in compliance with local/corporate safety standards and legislation and in compliance with corporate engineering and regulatory standards and guidelines.
10. Planning and Scheduling - uses planning tools to hold a complex project on schedule and coordinate parallel activities. Coordinate with facilities, EHS, QA, etc. Manage external factors such as planning and inspections.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills Required:

1. A degree in Chemical/Mechanical/Automation/Process Engineering with relevant experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
2. Minimum of 5-8 years project management experience across the project life cycle within a pharmaceutical environment.
3. Demonstrable capacity to effectively manage and execute projects from initiation to completion:
1. Full project lifecycle experience from end-to-end design through to C&Q and handover.
2. Understands the project management process; programming, scope development, design development, implementation, and project closeout.
4. Demonstrable experience of managing a diverse team of engineering professionals/contractors to deliver projects safely, on time, and within budget.
5. Solid background of planning and managing engineering projects with a demonstrated record of on-time performance.
6. Experience managing the overall financial performance of engineering projects, including cash flow, life cycle costs, business opportunities, and risks, both at a project and at a portfolio level.
7. Demonstrated understanding of project management process, programming, scope development, design development, implementation, project closeout.
8. Background working in multi-discipline, cross-functional teams.

If this role is of interest to you, please apply now!